The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The Christian's Secret HAPPY LIFE. CHAPTER L re rr Scriptukal? VTO thoughtful person can question the fact that, for 1 the most part, the Christian life, as it is generally lived, is not entirely a happy life. A keen observer once said to me, You Christians seem to have a religion that makes you miserable....
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The Christian's Secret HAPPY LIFE. CHAPTER L re rr Scriptukal? VTO thoughtful person can question the fact that, for 1 the most part, the Christian life, as it is generally lived, is not entirely a happy life. A keen observer once said to me, You Christians seem to have a religion that makes you miserable. You are like a man with a headache. He does not want to get rid of his head, but it hurts him to keep it. You cannot expect outsiders to seek very earnestly for anything so uncomfortable. Then for the first time I saw, as in a flash, that the religion of Christ ought to be, and was meant to be, to its possessors, not something to make them miserable, but something to make them happy; and I began then and there to ask the Lord to show me the secret of a happy Christian life. It is this secret, so far as I have learned it, that I shall try to tell in the following pager All of God's children, I am convinced, feel instinctively, in their moments of divine illumination, thata life of inward rest and outward victory is their inalienable birthright. Can you not remember, some of you, the shout of triumph your souls gave when you first became acquainted with the Lord Jesus, and had a glimpse of His mighty saving power? How sure you were of victory, then How easy it seemed to be more than conquerors, through Him that loved you Under the leadership of a Captain, who had never been foiled in battle, how could you dream of defeat And yet, to many of you, how different has been your real experience Your victories have been few and fleeting, your defeats many and disastrous. You have not lired as you feel children of God ought to live. You have had perhaps a clear understanding of doctrinal truths, but you have not come into possession of their life and power. You have...